Consolidation of Veterans' Activities: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments in the House of Representatives on H.R. 6141, a Bill to Authorize the President to Consolidate and Coordinate Governmental Activities Affecting War Veterans. Seventy-first Congress, Second Session. With Table of Contents, Index, and Statements Summarized |
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... handled by the following Government agencies : The Bureau of Pensions , Department of the Interior , the National Home ... handling of all legislative matters relating to veterans by one committee in each House of Congress , unify the ...
... handled by the following Government agencies : The Bureau of Pensions , Department of the Interior , the National Home ... handling of all legislative matters relating to veterans by one committee in each House of Congress , unify the ...
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... handling pension claims , with a resulting reduction in total personnel . I believe that the services of the present Board of Managers , who were appointed by joint resolution of Congress , should be utilized , in order that the bureau ...
... handling pension claims , with a resulting reduction in total personnel . I believe that the services of the present Board of Managers , who were appointed by joint resolution of Congress , should be utilized , in order that the bureau ...
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... handling the domi- ciliary problem , would be most helpful in any combined activity . So I would like to leave the thought with the committee that organ- ization - sound organization can never be brought about if we have to shape it to ...
... handling the domi- ciliary problem , would be most helpful in any combined activity . So I would like to leave the thought with the committee that organ- ization - sound organization can never be brought about if we have to shape it to ...
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... handling of other retire- ments in the same agency . Therefore , " fiduciary " is the word that would occur to me would come nearest covering it . But as long as you are to limit it to veterans , I can not see anything to be gained by ...
... handling of other retire- ments in the same agency . Therefore , " fiduciary " is the word that would occur to me would come nearest covering it . But as long as you are to limit it to veterans , I can not see anything to be gained by ...
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... handling the veterans ' relief . At the same time , we had the Federal Board for Vocational Education that took care of the re- habilitation of the veterans , trying to train them for some trade or vocation by means of which they might ...
... handling the veterans ' relief . At the same time , we had the Federal Board for Vocational Education that took care of the re- habilitation of the veterans , trying to train them for some trade or vocation by means of which they might ...
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activities adjudication administrative agencies American Legion appeal appropriated Army Assistant Secretary authority Battle Mountain beds BEEDY believe bill Board of Managers Branch Bureau hospitals Bureau of Pensions Cabinet officer Captain BETTELHEIM cent CHAIRMAN checks claims COCHRAN Colonel CHURCH Colonel MARSTON Colonel SCOTT Commissioner CHURCH Commissioner of Pensions compensation Comptroller Congress consolidation coordination cost DALLINGER decision Director Disabled Volunteer Soldiers domiciliary employees erans examination existing expense facilities fact gentlemen Government head HINES Home for Disabled institutions Interior Department JOHNSON KNUTSON legislation matter McCARL ment military MONTET National Home National Soldiers Navy neuropsychiatric operation organization patients payment Pension Bureau personnel preaudit present President problem proposed question record relief Rice W salaries SCHAFER Secretary WILBUR service connection Spanish War veterans Spanish-American War statement SWING thing tion transfer United States Veterans War Department WOOD World War veterans
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Page 85 - Administration shall be subject to review, on appeal, by such administrator. "SEC. 3. All property the title of which now stands in the name of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers is hereby transferred to and the title thereof vested in the United States.
Page 70 - Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN...
Page 2 - His service organizations are the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans; he is a thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk, and a Baptist.
Page 1 - President is authorized to utilize, coordinate, or consolidate any executive or administrative commissions, bureaus, agencies, offices, or officers now existing by law, to transfer any duties or powers from one existing department, commission, bureau, agency, office, or officer to another, to transfer the personnel thereof or any part of it either by detail or assignment, together with the whole or any part of the records and public property belonging thereto.
Page 102 - ... of the Veterans' Administration, including the expenses of maintenance and operation of medical, hospital, and domiciliary services of the Veterans' Administration, in carrying out the duties, powers, and functions devolving upon it pursuant to the authority contained in the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to consolidate and coordinate governmental activities affecting war veterans...
Page 104 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes...
Page 111 - Philippines, and who are disabled by disease, wounds or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support...
Page 2 - ... unless and until they shall thereafter be superseded or discharged according to law. The outstanding obligations assumed by the United States by virtue of the provisions of this subdivision may be enforced by suit in the Court of Claims or in the district courts of the United States...
Page 111 - Spain, and who are disabled by disease, wounds or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living...